[INDOLOGY] Source of "nAdevo devam arcayet"

Walter Slaje slaje at kabelmail.de
Mon Sep 29 09:52:09 UTC 2014


This is interesting, as Maṅkha cherishes the opposite opinion, according to
which no human (ruler), but only god, deserves praise - by man, e.g.:

*mahat kaṣṭam aho hitvā yac charvaṃ sarvataḥśrutim*[1] <#_ftn1>* |*

*garvānavadhibādhiryo nareṇa stūyate naraḥ* || Śrīkaṇṭhacarita 25.6 ||

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[1] <#_ftnref1> sarvataḥśrutim (em.)]* sarvataḥ śrutim *Ed.

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2014-09-29 11:00 GMT+02:00 Dr. T. Ganesan <ganesan at ifpindia.org>:

>
> nAdevo devamarcayet might be a general statement; but in the ancient
> unpublished text of Sivadharma, there is a passage:
>
>
> nārudraḥ saṁsmared rudraṃ nārudro rudram arcayet .
>
> nārudraḥ kīrtayed rudraṃ nārudro rudram āpnuyāt  .. (Sivadharma, 1: 25)
>
> This idea and the passage may be the basis for all later views expressed
> in the same fashion.
>
> Ganesan
>
>
> On 29-09-2014 02:45, Chiara Policardi wrote:
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>  Dear List members,
>
> what is the source of the citation “nAdevo devam arcayet”?
>
> It is quoted as “vedic saying” (Coomaraswamy) and “tantrik saying” (Eliade
> and others), but I haven’t ever seen the precise reference.
>
>
>  Thanking you in advance,
>
>
>  Chiara Policardi
>
> PhD student
>
> La Sapienza University of Rome
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